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Hiroko Chihara Amara
is currently teaching Japanese to elementary students at the Japanese Language School of Greater Boston. She has also taught intermediate and advanced level of Japanese in London where she worked as a licensed teacher. She is a graduate of Hokkaido University in Japan.  
Sachiko Furui
is a graduate of Osaka Language School in Osaka, Japan and holds a degree from Chuo University in Japan. She has taught Japanese for more than ten years to varying levels of students. Her previous teaching experiences include Salem Sate College, Berlitze Language Center and Endicott College.
Mikiyo Hattori
has taught Japanese and cross-cultural classes to companies in the Boston area for over nine years. Her experience includes international business management, writing for periodicals, techinical translating/interpreting for legal and financial companies. She has an MBA from Northeastern University and a BA from Meiji University in Japan.
Michika Ikeda
has taught Japanese at the Adult Education Center in London for two years. She is a graduate of the Institute of International Education in London (validated by the University of Cambridge) where she received her diploma in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language. She also holds an Associates degree from Kanto Gakuin Women's Junior College in Japan.
Mariko Itoh Henstock
has taught Japanese at several universities over the course of fifteen years, including Vassar College, Purdue University, Dartmouth College, and University of Iowa. She holds a Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education from Purdue University. She is also currently a preceptor and Japanese language coordinator at Boston University.
Hiromi Miyagi-Lusthaus
has completed a two-year training program in Japanese language pedagogy at the International Education Center in Tokyo and holds a certificate of Japanese Language Teaching issued by the Ministry of Education of Japan. She has taught Japanese at Bates College, Macalester College and the University of Missouri. She holds an BA from Waseda University in Japan. 
Kyoko Tanoshima
holds a certificate of Japanese Language Teaching issued by Ministry of Education of Japan. She has taught Japanese to students having various linguistic backgrounds at a government body in Japan and polytechnics in Singapore. She has an MA from University of Essex in England and a BA from Waseda Univeristy in Japan. 
Emi Usui
has taught Japanese in Australia and the U.S. including Rutgers University, and has also given cross-cultural training to professionals. She is a graduate from Aichi University and studied Japanese Pedagogy at Columbia Univeristy.
Ritsuko Wada Sullivan
is an experienced instructor in Japanese since 2001 and has taught at many levels, ranging from elementary classrooms to adult students. She has a MA and a BS from the University of Alabama.